Places mikedominelli Wants to Go

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.